On display at the museum | monument of the discoveries in Lisbon as part of their ‘Álbuns de Família’ (Family Albums) exhibition. The installation explores the historicity of African social movements in Portugal and collective diasporic oral and sonic tendencies. Containing self-portraits of local contemporary sound producers XEXA, Dadifox, Narciso, ADAMM, Nuno Beats e Danifox whose practices are entangled with cultural legacies such as Batida | Kuduro. They’re contributing to an archive that incorporates tactics of resistance, representation, permanence and polyphony in African socio-cultural authorship and authority in the city.
J. Paris approaches socio-spatial tensions in public settings; the display of faces, handwritings and frequencies of those who are (or may often not be) represented in the site [monument] — the sound producers pushing and continuously redefining African sonorities. This work reflects the urgency of sound production for the diasporas residing in Portugal and the role it plays in their processes of humanisation and cultural-identity affirmation.
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Rimas e Batidas
J. Paris approaches socio-spatial tensions in public settings; the display of faces, handwritings and frequencies of those who are (or may often not be) represented in the site [monument] — the sound producers pushing and continuously redefining African sonorities. This work reflects the urgency of sound production for the diasporas residing in Portugal and the role it plays in their processes of humanisation and cultural-identity affirmation.
Extending from the Padrões da Polifonia, J. Paris collaborated with music collective RS Produções to build an Extended Play tittled Ressurgência now available on all music streaming platforms.
Rimas e Batidas